1918 general election
Scotland: 1918 general election results
How Scotland voted at the 1918 general election: the Conservatives won 30 of 71 seats with 32.7% of the vote. Every constituency result.
1922 →
36 for a majority Con 30 Co Lib 24 Lib 8 Lab 5 Co Lab 1 Ind Lab 1 Change compared with the previous general election in Scotland.
Constituency Winner Majority % Turnout Result
Aberdeen North 210 1.7 36.4% Aberdeen South 7,090 41.6 43.9% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central 638 5.1 47.3% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Eastern 87 1.0 34.2% Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Kincardine and Western unopposed — — Argyll 9,237 62.8 52.0% Ayr District of Burghs 4,155 21.3 62.2% Ayrshire and Bute Bute and Northern 6,790 33.1 55.3% Ayrshire and Bute Kilmarnock 6,916 34.2 62.6% Ayrshire and Bute South Ayrshire 863 5.1 61.5% Banffshire unopposed — — Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire 3,801 23.9 48.6% Caithness and Sutherland 2,733 25.3 50.9% Dumbarton District of Burghs 1,168 5.2 70.4% Dumfriesshire 5,783 27.7 57.4% Dunbartonshire 5,693 24.9 66.8% Dundee 2-member seat: not split by party in the source — — 46.6% Dunfermline District of Burghs 1,810 11.7 55.2% Edinburgh Central 364 2.6 45.2% Edinburgh East 3,324 24.5 52.5% Edinburgh North 4,893 25.9 53.0% Edinburgh South 9,908 49.9 61.8% Edinburgh West 2,952 16.4 53.3% Fife Eastern 2,002 12.1 54.0% Fife Western 6,644 45.3 48.2% Forfarshire 518 4.8 44.2% Galloway unopposed — — Glasgow Bridgeton 3,027 15.3 52.0% Glasgow Camlachie 6,453 29.7 58.1% Glasgow Cathcart 11,411 53.8 61.8% Glasgow Central 12,917 57.7 52.9% Glasgow Gorbals 6,811 31.4 53.2% Glasgow Govan 815 4.1 63.2% Glasgow Hillhead 8,617 50.7 63.4% Glasgow Kelvingrove 8,636 40.7 53.5% Glasgow Maryhill 6,382 32.2 57.2% Glasgow Partick 6,983 40.3 61.1% Glasgow Pollok unopposed — — Glasgow Shettleston 74 0.4 62.7% Glasgow Springburn 2,790 13.6 60.9% Glasgow St Rollox 4,697 25.4 48.2% Glasgow Tradeston 8,499 43.9 53.9% Greenock 3,687 16.2 66.6% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Inverness 5,061 46.3 37.3% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Ross and Cromarty 6,120 57.8 51.2% Inverness Shire and Ross and Cromarty Western Isles 390 4.9 43.6% Kirkcaldy District of Burghs unopposed — — Lanarkshire Bothwell 332 1.8 69.2% Lanarkshire Coatbridge 5,934 29.0 64.8% Lanarkshire Hamilton 2,169 13.1 66.4% Lanarkshire Lanark 7,155 38.1 68.5% Lanarkshire Motherwell 2,155 12.1 64.2% Lanarkshire Northern 1,502 9.0 41.6% Lanarkshire Rutherglen 3,882 18.1 57.0% Leith 2,725 12.3 52.2% Linlithgowshire 4,175 19.3 66.4% Midlothian and Peeblesshire Northern 3,025 24.2 49.4% Midlothian and Peeblesshire Peebles and Southern 2,599 21.2 52.6% Montrose District of Burghs 6,369 52.0 49.1% Moray and Nairnshire unopposed — — Orkney and Shetland unopposed — — Paisley 106 0.5 57.6% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Kinross and Western 604 4.2 60.9% Perthshire and Kinross Shire Perth unopposed — — Renfrewshire Eastern 8,059 44.4 64.7% Renfrewshire Western 4,398 23.6 65.3% Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire 7,469 40.1 55.4% Stirling and Falkirk District of Burghs 4,149 28.5 49.4% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Clackmannan and Eastern 1,018 5.8 55.0% Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire Western 3,084 23.2 59.1%
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Questions and answers Who won in Scotland at the 1918 general election? The Conservatives won 30 of the 71 seats in Scotland, with 32.7% of the vote.
How many seats were there in Scotland in 1918? 71 constituencies.
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